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Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-7-1971
Descriptor Level A
Area B
Descriptor Level B
Square No. 3
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 2
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 1
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 349
Stratum: 02
Material: Glass
Allocated to: AUAM 71.044
Notes: 1.5 diameter x 1.1 cm thick
I. B. 1. a. (Circular perimeter, Short, Oblate/Spherical/Ellipsoid Profile) (Beck, 1928)
Perforation, Type III, single cone. 0.42 at larger end.
Black with fine silver striations going across "width" (at right angles to axis) and many closely placed grey spots.
At first examination I thought this was a "Cane Eye Bead" as described by Beck p. 62-65.
S. Goldstein prefers "splash decorated", where the wound bead is rolled in a dish of glass chips of different colors, re-heated, melted into the surface. This sounds like Beck's "Impressed glass crumb beads", p. 63.
Notes Reverse: (Continued from front)
When submerged in acids for cleaning (nitric + acetone) the caned spots turned blue, red, yellow, + white (large + small)
S. Goldstein says it is not good to put specimens like this in acid. If the point is to preserve them and enhance their colors, then they can be laminated with plastic.
Guido, p. 6, Decoration classified in (14) Mottled which has been "'marvered' (rubbed smooth on marble) into the surface while the glass was still warm"
